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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

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China is electrifying. When I was studying China and Mandarin Chinese 35 years ago, “Red” China was unrecognized by the US, literally, and dark in a way difficult to imagine now. Just as today we can look at a nighttime satellite image and see the black void that is recalcitrant, unelectrified North Korea, once that was China.

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Did Mayor Bloomberg in China Drive a Miles Javlon?

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Assembled here in China, the cars they are making can be marketed to drivers in both our nations, and in South America and the European Union, too. The result is a marriage of U.S.

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Two new EV initiatives

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China Electric Vehicles Initiative. Tags: us-china electric vehicles initiative fedex nissan electrification coalition. Bowing to the burgeoning electric vehicle industry in both countries, President Obama and President Hu Jin Tao announced the formation of the U.S.-China

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"Transmission Losses" - The Cost of Bio-fuels

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The Times has story of the consequences of crop production for bio-fuels: higher food prices and tragic irony.last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s largest cassava exporter , went to just one place and almost all for one purpose: to China to make biofuel.It

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Chinese Electric Car in 2008?

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Now Autobloggreen has a report out of China involving BYD. Tags: electric car china. I've long heard rumors of Chinese auto makers developing an electric car. It makes lots of sense, given Chinese battery production. I recalled hearing in 2005 that BYD acquired a license from Ovonics to manufacture NiMH batteries.

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"Transmission Losses" A 2Fer - Oil and Coal

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tons (65,000 metric tons) of coal from the Queensland port of Gladstone to China. Authorities fear an oil spill would cause environmental damage to the world's largest coral reef. The vessel was carrying about 72,000 U.S. It has 1,000 U.S. tons (950 metric tons) of oil on board.

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The approaching Tesla dry spell

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And Daimler is committed to German batteries going forward for Smart and Mercedes, and has a deal with BYD for China. There's no evidence yet of a deal beyond 2011 regarding the heralded, new RAV4 EV. Tesla has weathered dry spells before with Elon Musk's money, as it appears will be the case again. Source: GigaOM ).

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